Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 12:50:58 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> Cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: New Snapshot...Good and Bad.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950331124519.227A-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950330134435.9534A-100000@saul4.u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, John Utz wrote:
>
> left with all of the config stuff completely hosed! I dont want to be
> root on myname.my.domain forever! How do i run sysinstall again with out
> having it insist on newfsing my damn harddrive. I conceed the possibilty
> of ignorance on my part, but can somebody tell me how i am suppossed to
> finish the configuration and addd my wife and i on as newusers?
Read and edit (if necessary) each line of your /etc/sysconfig
file. There are lots of things in there you can change to suit your
local setup. One is your hostname. For other networking stuff, the
setup can be done by hand by editing the relevant files (/etc/hosts,
/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/defaultrouter, /etc/hostname.*, etc.) Use
/usr/sbin/adduser to create new accounts.
I admit this is probably daunting for someone who isn't familiar
with UNIX ("why are there so many numbers in /etc/hosts?!?") and it
would be nice to have, say, a Lynx-based system and network admin
tool. Now if only I could get a month off work...
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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